Overview:

This degree is designed to make important contributions to the enhancement of transdisciplinary professional practice in management and business administration. The degree pursues the application and development of theoretical frameworks, methods and techniques to solve practical business problems. This professional doctoral programme offers a combination of both theoretical and applied research methodology courses. The programme offers students a rigorous, research-focused curriculum that emphasises research addressing the problems most relevant to managers. The DBA curriculum develops the applied research competencies necessary to create independent thinkers and problem-solvers. Executives equipped with these advanced research skills will be better prepared to discover and address the vexing problems that face complex organisations, lead change initiatives, improve general organisational performance and impact advanced business practice in innovative and sustainable ways. The degree includes a taught component for credit and culminates in a thesis that is presented for examination. The DBA Coursework (ProDBA) is awarded in recognition of the demonstration of high-level research competence that results in a substantial and original scholarly contribution in a business discipline or field.